1. Introduction
2. The Social Purpose of Companies
3. Complicity and the Sexual Exploitation of Children - a case study
4. Sustainability's Social Side
5. Thinking like a Stakeholder
6. The Voice of the Stakeholder
7. Sociological Impacts
8. Signs of Impact
9. Reporting Social Impact
10. Measuring Economic Impact
11. Investing in Impact
12. Social Footprint
13. Accounting for Social Impact
14. The Elusiveness of the Social Revisited
Appendix I - Market Research
Appendix II - Analysis of GRI Social Indicators
Appendix III - SROI Case Study
Bibliography
Adrian Henriques is an independent adviser, writer, researcher, teacher and campaigner on corporate responsibility, social accountability and sustainability. He is professor of Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Middlesex University, and the author of Corporate Truth: The Limits to Transparency (Earthscan, 2007).
'Adrian Henriques has done it again ... Clear and well-written, the
text will stimulate and challenge practitioners, students,
policy-makers and academics.'
Professor R.H. Gray, Director of The Centre for Social and
Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management, The
Gateway University of St Andrews 'There may be a temptation to
blame the corporate sector for many of the world's problems, but
ultimately it's a split of responsibility between the life style
choices of individual consumers, the state and the corporation. To
address this subject Adrian Henriques reviews an array of methods
to try and measure the social outcome of individual companies in an
attempt to answer the frequently asked question 'What's a company
for?''
Dr Chris Tuppen, BT Director of Sustainable Development 'In
developing policy and standards for business activity, social
impact has long been the disadvantaged sibling of environmental and
economic impacts of companies. Henriques goes a long way toward
rectifying this disparity by providing rich and varied perspectives
on the definition, measurement and assessment of the social
footprint of commercial activity Along the way, he takes us well
beyond the boundaries of conventional CSR, raises fundamental
questions about the purpose of the corporation, and challenges both
companies and stakeholders to rethink their interdependency in new
and provocative ways.'
Allen L. White, Co-Founder, Global Reporting Initiative; Senior
Fellow, Tellus Institute 'Adrian Henriques has done it again. He
has taken a refreshingly novel angle on an important issue in need
of urgent attention. This much-needed attempt to move on from much
of the staleness in the CSR debate is broad and wide-ranging. Clear
and well-written, the text will stimulate and challenge
practitioners, students, policy-makers and academics. My guess is
that my personal reaction of positive response and outraged
disagreement in roughly equal measure will be a fairly common one:
in this regard it succeeds masterfully in advancing this debate in
a challenging manner.'
Professor R.H. Gray, Director of The Centre for Social and
Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management, The
Gateway University of St Andrews 'As we cannot stretch the surface
of the planet, we cannot extend time. Space and time are the
ultimate physical ingredients to anything we do. Measuring,
therefore, our time footprint (or social footprint) becomes a key
ingredient for any sustainability assessment, and I am thrilled
that Adrian Henriques is exploring the time dimension as a metric
for social impact.'
Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network President
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